MILWAUKEE -- One person was found dead following an apartment fire near 91st and Hampton in Milwaukee on Wednesday morning, May 8.

Cellphone video obtained by FOX6 News showed fire and smoke spewing out of the apartment complex. Smoke and flame scars left on the side of the building showed how intense the fire was. Although one man died, it could have been worse had one brave woman not acted.

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"I was driving my daughter to school and I was turning down this street, and I just saw some black smoke," said Jessi Johnson, witness.

Before the fire department even got the call, Johnson and her daughter saw what was happening.

Fatal fire near 91st and Hampton, Milwaukee

"I said to my daughter, 'Oh is something on fire?' You know, kind of like, jokingly, and she said, 'No, Mom. There is -- and a window is busted out'," said Johnson.

What the two did next was simply amazing.

"I told her to call 911, and I got out and I ran over there and basically I was knocking on the door, banging on the window," said Johnson.

Johnson and another bystander tried to break windows and alert tenants to what was happening.

"He just started taking whatever he could find on the ground to bust the windows open and he kicked some doors open," Johnson said.